"as a specific character. His shuffling feet, choice of themes, self-torturing reminiscence and intense reactions to much of what Words and Music produce/perform all seem to indicate that he is a decrepit version of Orsino with his famous opening line from Twelfth Night: ""If music be the food of love, play on,"" a hopeless romantic, in love with love, and the melancholy brought on by the mere thought of it. Croak could almost be the selfsame man, had he never moved from that spot for the rest of his life and now finds himself perhaps approaching the brink of death."
"a supporter of the Earl of Essex but he did not visit England until the English court for the Christmas revels in December 1600 where he was entertained by Shakespeare's ""Twelfth Night"" and the play opens with the character of Duke Orsino saying the famous line ""If music be the food of love, play on."" He died in Rome in 1615. Virginio Orsini, Duke of Bracciano Virginio Orsini (September 1572 – 9 September 1615) was the second Duke of Bracciano, member of the Orsini family and knight of the order of the Golden Fleece. He was the son of Paolo"
"""If music be the food of love...""), identifying him as a force for vitality, noise and good cheer, as his name suggests. But it also raises the question of how far the audience is expected to sympathize with him. Is his criticism of his niece a justified statement of the old truism that ""life must go on"", or an insensitive blunder by a hungover old drunkard? At the beginning Sir Toby appears to be friends with another character, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, a guest of Olivia, Sir Toby's niece. However as the play progresses, it transpires that Sir Toby is just"
"Olivia and immediately thinks up a fantasy, convincing himself any passion inside him is only for her. But when his page boy ""Cesario"" begins to work with him, he becomes fond of the boy, which is one reason to explain why he is easily able to switch his love from Olivia to Viola (Cesario) in the end. Orsino is in love with the idea of being in love and is depressed about this, so when he says ""if music be the food of Love play on"" he is trying to cure his depression, and Shakespeare uses a metaphor about feeding"
"as the female leads in the original play. Their surname is Stratford, a nod to Shakespeare's birthplace. Patrick's surname Verona references the home of his relative character Petruchio. The characters attend Padua High School, named after where the play is set. Cameron (Lucentio, who disguises himself as a tutor named Cambio) tutors Bianca in French and slips in a line from play while obsessing over her: """"I burn, I pine, I perish"""". Patrick's character reflects the outlandish behavior of Petruchio, and Michael coerces Patrick into the marching band incident with the words from Sonnet 56: """"Sweet love, renew thy force""""."
"Music in the plays of William Shakespeare Music in the plays of William Shakespeare includes both music incidental to the plot, as song and dance, and also additional supplied both by Shakespeare's own company and subsequent performers. This music is distinct from musical settings of Shakespeare's sonnets by later composers. The following are among the most notable examples of songs in Shakespeare's plays: Among the dances associated with Shakespeare's company is ""Kemp's Jig"" named after the actor Will Kemp. The generations after Shakespeare saw many composers create or arrange music for his plays. Among the most notable were Thomas Morley,"
"Hamlet in William Shakespeare's ""Hamlet"", who tells Prince Hamlet that he needs to avenge his father's death. While King Hamlet is a driving force upon the plot of ""Hamlet"", however, Andrea's ""ghost and his theme, which was to be the core of the play, are superfluous; and, indeed, need never have been introduced"". Awake, Revenge, if love, as love hath had, Have yet the power or prevalence in hell! Hieronimo with Lorenzo is joined in the league And interprets our passage to revenge. Awake, Revenge, or we are woe-begone. (3.14.13-17) Andrea and the personified Revenge serve as the chorus of"
"Jaques both elect to remain within the forest. University of Wisconsin professor Richard Knowles, the editor of the 1977 New Variorum edition of this play, in his article ""Myth and Type in As You Like It"", pointed out that the play contains mythological references in particular to Eden and to Hercules. ""As You Like It"" is known as a musical comedy because of the number of songs in the play. Indeed, there are more songs in it than in any other play of Shakespeare. These songs and music are incorporated in the action that takes place in the forest of"
"Where Is Love? ""Where is Love?"" is a song from the Tony Award-winning British musical ""Oliver!"" and the 1968 film ""Oliver!"" based on the novel ""Oliver Twist"" by Charles Dickens. The musical was written by Lionel Bart and was first staged in London's West End in 1960. Oliver Twist, the leading character, sings the song after being thrown into the cellar of a funeral parlour for getting into a fight with Noah Claypole, another servant of the undertaker. Later in the show a reprise is sung by Mr Brownlow's housekeeper, Mrs Bedwin. In the 1968 Columbia Pictures musical film version"
"is our life? A game!"") a quote from Act 3 of the opera, became a proverb in Russian. ""What? Where? When?"", a trivia game and one of the most popular TV-shows in Russia and former Soviet countries, starts with a musical quotation from the opera, Herman singing the phrase ""Life is but a game."" The Queen of Spades (opera) The Queen of Spades, Op. 68 (, ""Pikovaya dama"", ) is an opera in 3 acts (7 scenes) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to a Russian libretto by the composer's brother Modest Tchaikovsky, based on a short story of the same name"
"role of Peter is enlarged, and played by Andy Devine as a faint-hearted bully. He speaks lines which Shakespeare gave to other Capulet servants, making him the instigator of the opening brawl. The film includes two songs drawn from other plays by Shakespeare: ""Come Away Death"" from ""Twelfth Night"" and ""Honour, Riches, Marriage, Blessing"" from ""The Tempest"". Clusters of images are used to define the central characters: Romeo is first sighted leaning against a ruined building in an arcadian scene, complete with a pipe-playing shepherd and his dog; the livelier Juliet is associated with Capulet's formal garden, with its decorative"
"much, but think the more"" (4.1.85) and ""Not I, my thoughts aim at a further matter:/I stay not for love of Edward but the crown"" (141.124–125); Warwick's ""O unbid spite, is sportful Edward come"" (5.1.18); the entirety of Richard's soliloquy in Act 5, Scene 6, after killing Henry (ll.61–93) and Richard's ""To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master/And cried 'All hail', whenas he meant all harm"" (5.7.33–34). The play also featured in ITV's ""Will Shakespeare"", a 1978 six-part (heavily fictionalised) biopic of Shakespeare (Tim Curry), written by John Mortimer. Episode one, ""Dead Shepherd"", focuses on Shakespeare's apprenticeship to"
"challenges audience members to question their own moral judgment of social taboos. The play also features many language games and grammatical arguments in the middle of catastrophes and existential disputes between the characters. The name of the play refers to the song ""Who is Sylvia?"" from Shakespeare's play ""The Two Gentlemen of Verona"". Proteus sings this song, hoping to woo Silvia. It is also referred to in ""Finding the Sun"" (1982), an earlier work of Albee. It is Martin's 50th birthday. In his suburban living room, he and his wife Stevie prepare to be interviewed on television by their friend"
"opening (where the producers were sued over the show's content) saying, ""Jupiter will be in opposition to naughty Saturn, and the show opens the very day of the sun's eclipse. Terrible."" But there was no astrologically safe time in the near future. ""Hair"" makes many references to Shakespeare's plays, especially ""Romeo and Juliet"" and ""Hamlet"", and, at times, takes lyrical material directly from Shakespeare. For example, the lyrics to the song ""What a Piece of Work Is Man"" are from ""Hamlet"" (II: scene 2) and portions of ""Flesh Failures"" (""the rest is silence"") are from Hamlet's final lines. In ""Flesh"
"were a new song written by the Duke for Lady Liv. Lady Liv finds Vy-man charming, and a series of mistaken pairings results. Meanwhile, several of the performers at the Cotton Club are rebelling against the overly serious and tyrannical club manager, Rev. Since Rev has a crush on Lady Liv, the performers persuade him that he should woo her by learning to swing and scat, giving up his old fashioned ballads. More confusion results before the truth is revealed, and the couples are appropriately united. Play On! Play On! is a musical adaptation of Shakespeare's ""Twelfth Night"", featuring the"
"time. John Stuart Mill, in his ""Autobiography"", recalled that in his childhood, Baillie's ""Constantine Paleologus"" appeared to him 'one of the most glorious of human compositions' and that he continued to think it 'one of the best dramas of the last two centuries'. Two ""songs"" from ""Ethwald"", ""Hark! the cock crows"" and ""Once upon my cheek he said the roses grew"", were set to music by the English composer John Wall Callcott. One of her few detractors was Francis Jeffrey, who in 1803 published a long condemnatory review of the ""Plays on the Passions"" in the Edinburgh Review. He attacked"
"no more than a wrestling match, and the action throughout is often interrupted by a song. At the end, Hymen himself arrives to bless the wedding festivities. William Shakespeare’s play ""As You Like It"" clearly falls into the Pastoral Romance genre; but Shakespeare does not merely use the genre, he develops it. Shakespeare also used the Pastoral genre in ""As You Like It"" to ‘cast a critical eye on social practices that produce injustice and unhappiness, and to make fun of anti-social, foolish and self-destructive behaviour’, most obviously through the theme of love, culminating in a rejection of the notion"
"is based on the ""Seven Ages of Man"" element of the ""All the world's a stage"" speech and was premiered in April 2016. As You Like It As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the First Folio in 1623. The play's first performance is uncertain, though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 has been suggested as a possibility. ""As You Like It"" follows its heroine Rosalind as she flees persecution in her uncle's court, accompanied by her cousin Celia to find safety and, eventually,"
"letters which survived contain multiple quotations of Shakespeare's work, including the plays ""Othello"", ""Antony and Cleopatra"", ""Hamlet"" and ""King Lear"". In 1880 he gave her Cowden Clarke's ""Complete Concordance to Shakespeare"" (1877). Dickinson wrote that ""While others go to Church, I go to mine, for are you not my Church, and have we not a Hymn that no one knows but us?"" She referred to him as ""My lovely Salem"" and they wrote to each other religiously every Sunday. Dickinson looked forward to this day greatly; a surviving fragment of a letter written by her states that ""Tuesday is a"
"the lovers. All characters now recognise their folly in light of recent events, and things return to the natural order, thanks to the love and death of Romeo and Juliet. The ""light"" theme in the play is also heavily connected to the theme of time since light was a convenient way for Shakespeare to express the passage of time through descriptions of the sun, moon, and stars. Time plays an important role in the language and plot of the play. Both Romeo and Juliet struggle to maintain an imaginary world void of time in the face of the harsh realities"
"revived at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2006 and at the Royal and Derngate Theatres, Northampton in 2011. It was broadcast as a Radio drama on BBC Radio 4 the same year. It has become a staple of repertory theatre seasons since. In Praise of Love (play) In Praise of Love, originally entitled ""After Lydia"", is the first part of a 1973 double-bill play by the English playwright Terence Rattigan (the second half being ""Before Dawn"", a burlesque of the opera ""Tosca""). It was the penultimate play he wrote. The play's action was loosely inspired by the true-life relationship between"
"works based on ""Hamlet"" include: Contemporary popular music mentions include: The play has contributed many phrases to common English vernacular, including the famous ""To be, or not to be"". Hamlet in popular culture Numerous references to ""Hamlet"" in popular culture (in film, literature, arts, etc.) reflect the continued influence of this play. ""Hamlet"" is one of the most popular of Shakespeare's plays, topping the list at the Royal Shakespeare since 1879. The following list of plays including references to ""Hamlet"" is ordered alphabetically. The following list is ordered alphabetically. Sitcoms alluding to ""Hamlet"" include ""Gilligan's Island"", ""Happy Days"", ""Skins"", ""Mystery"
"two other works by Angela Carter: ""The Bloody Chamber"" and ""Nights at the Circus"". Throughout the novel, there are numerous references to the works and impact of William Shakespeare. At the beginning of the novel there are three quotations, two of which allude to Shakespeare: """"Brush Up on Your Shakespeare"""", a song title from the musical ""Kiss Me, Kate"" based on Shakespeare's ""The Taming of the Shrew"", and the quote ""How many times Shakespeare draws fathers and daughters, never mothers and daughters"" by Ellen Terry, an English stage actress. In an interview on the subject of ""Wise Children"", Angela Carter"
"Love's Pilgrimage (play) Love's Pilgrimage is a Jacobean era stage play, a tragicomedy by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. The play is unusual in their canon, in that its opening scene contains material from Ben Jonson's 1629 comedy ""The New Inn."" The common materials are ""Love's Pilgrimage,"" Act I, scene i, lines 25-63 and 330-411, and ""The New Inn,"" II,v,48-73 and III,i,57-93 and 130-68. Early researchers like F. G. Fleay and Robert Boyle thought that the Jonsonian material in ""Love's Pilgrimage"" was authorial — that Jonson was one of the creators of the play. Modern critics favor the view that"
"with so many authours, that it were labour lost to speake of Loue"", a source from which Shakespeare also took the untranslated Venetian proverb ""Venetia, Venetia/Chi non ti vede non ti pretia"" (LLL 4.2.92–93) (""Venice, Venice, Who does not see you cannot praise you""). ""Love's Labour's Lost"" abounds in sophisticated wordplay, puns, and literary allusions and is filled with clever pastiches of contemporary poetic forms. Critic and historian John Pendergast states that ""perhaps more than any other Shakespearean play, it explores the power and limitations of language, and this blatant concern for language led many early critics to believe that"
"the binding of a book of sermons published in 1637, one dated August 1603 and the other September 1607. On the verso of the 1603 sheet a list of 16 ""[inter]ludes and tragedyes"" sold from 9 to 17 August 1603 was found. The list included four of Shakespeare’s plays, Merchant of Venice, The Taming of a Shrew, Love's Labour's Lost, and Love's Labour's Won, a play that had been mentioned by Francis Meres in his ""Palladis Tamia"", (1598) but for which no other evidence had been found. The find provided evidence that the play was in fact a unique work"
"lays the ghosts to rest and all ends happily. Perchance to Dream (musical) Perchance to Dream is a musical romance with book, lyrics and music by Ivor Novello. It was the only musical for which Novello wrote lyrics. The title is a quotation from William Shakespeare's play ""Hamlet"". The plot, like many of Novello's plots, is a romantic adventure tale, telling the parallel stories of the fates of several inhabitants of the same house through differing time periods. The stories interconnect and have unforeseen repercussions, one upon the other. It opened on the London stage at the Hippodrome Theatre on"
"classed with a roster of similar plays in its generation, including Dekker and Ford's ""The Sun's Darling"", Nabbes's ""Microcosmus"", Randolph's ""The Muses' Looking Glass"", Barten Holyday's ""Technogamia"", and William Strode's ""The Floating Island"", among others. In the view of one critic, ""Pathomachia"" has ""a significance for the historian of ethics and psychological theory."" Pathomachia Pathomachia, or the Battle of Affections"", also known as Love's Lodestone"", is an early 17th-century play, first printed in 1630. It is an allegory that presents a range of problems to scholars of the drama of the Jacobean and Caroline eras. The play was licensed for"
"""It's a Hard Life"" is based on the line ""Ridi, Pagliaccio, sul tuo amore infranto!"" (Laugh, clown, at your broken love!) from ""Vesti la giubba"", an aria from Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera ""Pagliacci"". The same melody is also quoted in the soundtrack of the movie ""A Night at the Opera"" after which Queen had named their album from the year 1975. Musically, the song recreates the feel of ""Play the Game"" in order to update the story, utilising Mercury's piano playing and the band's characteristic technique of layered harmonies. It is recorded very much with the ethos of earlier Queen albums"
"Love's Labour's Lost Love's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s for a performance at the Inns of Court before Queen Elizabeth I. It follows the King of Navarre and his three companions as they attempt to swear off the company of women for three years of study and fasting. Their subsequent infatuation with the Princess of France and her ladies makes them forsworn. In an untraditional ending for a comedy, the play closes with the death of the Princess's father, and all weddings are delayed for a year. The"
"his victim rise up, more than one murderer has confessed his crime""). He asks the players to enact the play ""The Murder of Gonzago"", saying he shall tell them when to pour the poison. He then asks the pages to bring in wine for all. 10. ""Chanson Bacchique"". Seizing a goblet, Hamlet sings a song in praise of wine (Hamlet: ""Ô vin, dissipe la tristesse qui pése sur mon cœur! À moi les rêves de l'ivresse et le rire moqueur!"" – ""O wine, dispel the sorrow which weighs on my heart! Give me dreams of euphoria and the mocking laugh!"")."
"Shakespeare in Love Shakespeare in Love is a 1998 American romantic period comedy-drama film directed by John Madden, written by Marc Norman and playwright Tom Stoppard. The film depicts an imaginary love affair involving playwright William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) and Viola de Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow) while Shakespeare was writing ""Romeo and Juliet"". Several characters are based on historical figures, and many of the characters, lines, and plot devices allude to Shakespeare's plays. ""Shakespeare in Love"" received favorable reviews from critics and was a box office success, grossing $289.3 million worldwide and was the ninth highest-grossing film of 1998. The film"
"opera, for radio and television and as a musical film. ""Love's Labour's Lost"" features the longest scene (5.2), the longest single word 'honorificabilitudinitatibus' (5.1.39–40), and (depending on editorial choices) the longest speech (4.3.284–361) in all of Shakespeare's plays (see ""Date and Text"" below). Ferdinand, King of Navarre, and his three noble companions, the Lords Berowne, Dumaine, and Longaville, take an oath not to give in to the company of women. They devote themselves to three years of study and fasting; Berowne agrees somewhat more hesitantly than the others. The King declares that no woman should come within a mile of"